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A “cult” typically refers to a social group devoted to beliefs or practices that the surrounding population considers to be outside the mainstream. Cults usually expect a large amount of time and money to be devoted as well. And sometimes a cult will ask the ultimate price, your life. Here are 10 cults that have changed the way the world looks at cults.
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10. Scientology
9. Hare Krishna
8. The Unification Church
7. Children of God
6. The Ku Klux Klan (or KKK)
5. The Manson Family
4. Heaven’s Gate
3. The Solar Temple
2. Branch Davidians
1. The People’s Temple
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Whoever writes these REALLY needs to research the Branch Davidians a bit more and NOT rely on government reports. There is clear F.L.I.R. footage of people being assassinated by a sniper as they tried to escape the burning building. Even if Koresh was actually guilty of the things they accused him off, (again, the governments reports have been questioned by those who would know) the government massacred those people, ALL these people, not just him.

You forgot the Catholic nuns at the mother and baby institutions in Ireland.... They killed over 700 babies so I'd say they count as dangerous and they kidnapped and imprisoned young women and sold off the babies they didn't starve to death all without punishment! I'd call that a very dangerous cult!!

If you wish to consider Iskcon a cult, that's fine, but Krishna is an incarnation of Vishnu in Indian religion. Worship of Krishna and chanting his names dates back over half a millennium, to Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Krishna's appearance on earth was over 5,000 years ago, and the Mahabharata contains one of India's most sacred texts, the Bhagavad Gita. It is NOT a novel. Before commenting on something. it may help you to RESEARCH it.

Also jonestown was not so much a mass suicide as it was a mass murder. the children were forced to drink it and if they didn't they were injected
same as with the elderly and any defectors that didn't leave earlier that day though most of them were killed anyway at the airport also in town Jones owned a house where his children lived biological and adopted they were murdered as well by their mother and his adopted son lived

most people at jonestown didn't willingly commit suicide. they were forced to drink poison at gun point, many were indeed shot, and the whole suicide event (which the cult had been preparing for for a long time) was innitiated by a group of cult members trying to flee. a US congressman was visiting the cult because of public concerns over its mostly american members, the cult forced everybody to put on an idyllic show, but somebody secretly handed the visitors a note that said that everybody was being threatened with murder. the congressman later made an announcement to the people of jonestown that he was flying back and that he invited anyone who wanted to leave to go with him. a few dozen members accepted the offer, but the group was intercepted on the nearby airstrip about to board their plane by armed guards of the cult, who started shooting and killed some including the congressman. the rest were taken back, and the suicide protocol that everybody had been prepared for as a central belief of the cult was innitiated, except not on the voluntary basis that had been preached before. with pre-recorded messages for this purpose from the leader blaring from the loudspeakers that were already in constant use throughout the premises to keep everybody of one mind, everybody was herded together by the armed guards, and anybody who tried to run away or not drink the koolaid was executed.
jonestown was a mass suicide only on the surface, if you count everybody who died from poison as a suicide. really, it was almost entirely mass murder, because only a small percentage of the cult who were running the show were actually fanatical enough to willingly kill themselves.

I hope you told all these cult pushers in your comments to get f..cked! How dare they demand anything! Pigs! These ppl are insane. Do like Leslie Neilson did the movie "Airport", and knock them flat on their asses!

Helter Skelter was originally a British carnival ride, which Paul McCartney wrote a song about and recorded on the White Album, which Manson was obsessed with. Thus he named his apocalyptic movement Helter Skelter. Most people think the Beatles wrote the song about Manson.

While the cults that are on this list all deserve to be on it, there are a few cults that deserve, at least, an honorable mention; the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Westboro Baptist Church, the Rosicrucians...(...the Rosicrucians were into `dooms day` in a big way!) and the Millerites, in particularly.
You also forgot to mention, with number 4 - Heaven's Gate, one `symbol of their devotion` was that they castrated themselves before committing suicide.

I'm really bad with named but some additional content:
The cult that spread sarin gas in tokyo 1998
The rajneeshs, that commited innumerous crimes in the us, there s a 6hrs documentary on netflix about it

Omg... from watching this video I learned way too people take the idea of calling something a ‘religion' way too far!! So sad... But informative & interesting & alittle depressing to see such unnecessary waste of human life. Got to be careful who one follow.. could be right down a path of total destruction.. I do remember about Jonestown. I was a teenager when that tragidy happened.. I stay clear of shouting Bible toting holy rollers... They are the worst!!! And I'm way too stubborn to survive in a cult.. I much rather maintain control of my own mind--whats left of it😂
I think the Nazi Party was a cult hiding under the cover of politics in plain sight..

ladycplum yeah they are horrendous it’s the way you can hear people beg that there must be another way and that the children should be spared, truly disgusting monster of a man. There’s an interesting documentary I think it was called I escaped a cult you can find it on YouTube it’s definitely worth a watch x

Hate Krishna??!?!?!? Made from a Novel? Sir you have offended every Hindu Alive with this video. Krishna is one of the most beloved gods in the Hindu Religion. Hare Krishna is a BRANCH of Hinduism that focuses on lord Krishna. Sir, I demand an apology for this

And The Branch Davidian situation started in 93 not 94 as you reported. It was exactly 2 yrs later that McVeigh Blew up the Federal building as an Homage to the Seige in Waco... I love ya guys but get your facts straight

One thing you left out of the Johnstown Massacre was that many of the people were actually murdered. As people started to convulse, others refused to drink and were force-fed the poison or had it injected. Jones, himself, didn't drink it and had to have one of his bodyguards shoot him.

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